Impact of Social Media Psychologically on high School Students

Abstract

Social media attacks the human brain’s mental state, triggering mood swings, the failure to think and act rationally, a loss of confidence, and a decline in overall quality of life. If you compare your parent’s life to those of today’s generation, it’s clear that they had a less emotional and psychological effect. Why? You already know the answer, i.e., social media. According to the survey, 27 percent of teenagers who used social media extensively showed high psychological tension. While teens who used social media less often showed only 17 percent of psychological stress. Most students start using social media to communicate. But the more time they spend on social media, the more possibility of them getting addicted. Instead of opening books, they are likely to use social media, leading to psychological effects such as depression and anxiety, isolation, lack of confidence, self-harm, failure to recognize their worth. So, the present study is aimed at finding the psychological impact of social media on high school students in relating to their demographical variable like gender, class, locality, type of school, medium, religion, category, parent’s income, parents occupation, parents education and type of family. The Investigator prepared standardized personal data sheet and collected data by interview method. They have selected 3 governments, 3 government aided and 3 private high schools of kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh. The sample size is 630. Percentage analysis, Mean, Standard deviation and t – test statistical techniques are used for Analysis and Interpretation. Further findings indicate that social media influence psychologically on high school students. The researcher collected the data by interview method. It is observed that social media influence psychologically on high school students. The psychological impact of social media is high on girls compare to the boys. urban area high school students' psychologically influenced by social media in comparison to rural area high school students. It is also found that there is significant social media impact on private school students, English medium and nuclear family students. There is no significant difference Religion, category, parent’s income, parent’s qualification and education.